> When I observe normies they don't seem to care. They'll force and abuse things all the time. I did wonder if it was part of my predisposition towards engineering.

Caring implies doing the right thing, which you can't afford lest you now be bogged down with the burden of doing it correctly, which requires effort.

Some people use dull knives because the thought of maintaining and sharpening them is worse than almost losing a finger every time they need to cut a tomato in half.

I suspect that a lot of people find proactive and sustained effort to be so draining that they'd rather continually have second rate experiences and find peace in that. Then there's people who just generally don't care.

I'm hoping (for my own sanity) that this is a bias on the observer as it's easy to look at someone from the outside and not see the areas where they do care and do the right more times than not. I know I've been unable to live up to my own standards plenty of times throughout the years for factors outside of caring.

The idea that a blunt knife is more dangerous than a sharp one is a total fallacy.

Every time I've cut myself on a knife, it's been because it was too sharp, not because it was too blunt.

In the limit, a blunt knife is a sphere and a sharp knife is a sharp knife. Very obviously sharp knives are more dangerous than blunt ones because sharp knives cut better and blunt knives cut worse.